Building simulation enables architects and engineers to make smart design decisions. Predict wind comfort on the local built environment and comply with comfort and safety guidelines.
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With the complexity of modern urban areas, pedestrian wind comfort simulations become a critical factor in urban design, helping to ensure the overall well-being, safety, and comfort in pedestrian zones. Predicting and assessing urban wind flow patterns, wind pressure, phenomena like the Venturi effect or the airflow around buildings is an expensive process. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation helps engineers and urban planners investigate all of these factors early in the design process, before investing in wind tunnel testing.
Transient simulations have historically required a high investment of money and time. This GPU-based solver uses the Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) to tackle this problem by pairing accuracy with unparalleled speed and is accessible via the cloud with SimScale. We partnered with Numeric Systems GmbH to develop this innovative feature through their tool Pacefish®. We have reduced running times for transient simulations like the ones used to test wind comfort from weeks and days to hours and minutes. Its ability to run on multiple GPUs in parallel enables turnaround times that are 20-30 times shorter than standard methods. Moreover, Pacefish® supports several turbulence models such as Smagorinsky, SST-DDES, Hybrid SST-IDDES, and k-omega SST.
With SimScale, investing in expensive high-performance computing hardware and caring for software installation and maintenance are a thing of the past.
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“Thanks to the platform’s ease of use, the professional support of SimScale engineers and the perfect communication with them, we were able to efficiently perform simulations and sort out our design problems. It’s hard to imagine how much physical prototyping time and measures we saved.”
CEO at CRYO Science
“The nice thing about SimScale is that you can essentially run an unlimited number of simulations simultaneously with no reduction in computational resources because SimScale opens up each simulation on independent nodes. This is a huge advantage for us.”
CAE Engineer at Johnson Screens - Aqseptence Group
“SimScale moves complex simulations to the next level. We are thrilled about the user-friendly interface, great customer support, and computing power, which enables us to handle our projects more efficiently.”
Civil Engineer at Ingenieurbüro Hausladen GmbH
“I loved the fact that I could do what I need to do in a browser. I started working without installing any software. Using any computer I could upload the model and start the analysis. That was the big “wow” moment.”
President at Custom Machines
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